tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406196.post5411526826671010342..comments2024-03-22T03:31:03.398-04:00Comments on serif of nottingblog: MIND D-G / G-D DNIMgary barwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05063921311334434357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406196.post-84715813330542661662008-06-11T01:43:00.000-04:002008-06-11T01:43:00.000-04:00I had similar thoughts when I was "begetting" my m...I had similar thoughts when I was "begetting" my most recent videopoem, "Beware of Dog". It was going to be a dialogue with God. The whole idea was, if not humiliating, certainly humbling; but it was a challenge, and I kept reminding myself that it was going to be cool, to be talking with God. So I started writing stuff, deferring whether it was God talking or man (me). (Later on I realized that I would have to have yet another voice, the voice of our instinctive impulse, to counteract the intellectual/emotional voice.) I soon realized that there was not going to be much of a dialogue; how could one bear to hear such power? So the voice of god had to be tempered, filtered so as not to destroy the hearer. Which was where I identified a kabbalistic element to the work. Do you want to see it? I posted it recently at:<BR/>http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk80fpd9xBQTom Konyveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10200324415777224566noreply@blogger.com